understanding dedicated servers(newbie)

akohl posted this at 06:01 — 8th February 2001.

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I am going to be putting together an educational website dedicated to presenting hour long video programms. Obviously, that's a pretty heavy duty job. I've been told that I should look into getting a dedicated server. I'm interested in learning how to manage a site on a dedicated server. Is it the same as regular web hosting where the web site designer just uploads his site via ftp? What do I have to know before I manage a site like this? Advise and links to articles for newbies on this subject would be helpful.

thank you

Andy Kohlenberg
Jerusalem, Israel

NSS posted this at 09:23 — 8th February 2001.

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Hi,

Web Hosting:
You rent some alloted space on a server and are provided a certain bandwidth limit(traffic) for your site where you upload your files to that allocated space only. In a shared enviroment sometimes there is as much as 200 - 400 sites on a single server. Of course if there are too many clients on a single server then performance will suffer for that particular Host.

Dedicated Server:
A dedicated server has only one client and provides you with a larger amount of uptime, space, greater server access, the ability to use custom applications, greater security, greater bandwidth, and superior technical support

The below link will help you understand the different servers available in the market and also a list of Hosting companies providing dedicated service.

http://webserverlist.developersnetwork.com/

Hope this helps

Regards,
NSS

Jaiem posted this at 21:32 — 8th February 2001.

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Good articles NSS.

Any other articles that go more into comparing the types of dedicated server hardware/software?

NSS posted this at 01:57 — 9th February 2001.

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Hi Jaiem,

There's some articles on server software/hardware comparision. Take a look at
http://webcompare.internet.com/cgi-bin/quickcompare.pl

It has a list of web servers working on different platforms and also some server tutorials.

Regards,
NSS

NSS posted this at 10:51 — 9th February 2001.

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Hi Jaiem,

I managed to find some info about dedicated servers for different platforms. I hope this is the info you need.

Please visit the below link:

http://www.dedicated-servers.co.uk/

Regards,
NSS

Jaiem posted this at 05:56 — 10th February 2001.

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Thanks guys.

I'm interested in something that talks about the common "terms" I've heard in association with dedicated servers. Things like COBALT, RaQF1, RaQF2, etc.

Are these hardware platforms? Software? Configuration standards? Basically a Dummies Guide to Dedicated Servers.

TradeViceroy posted this at 02:18 — 14th February 2001.

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Hello. A dedicated server is rather hard to manage (at first) unless you have experienced help within hand reach. I myself have had one since Oct. 99 and I am still learning the ropes.

My advice (if you choose to go dedicated), is to sign a managed services contract with your provider, unless you can get an experienced friend to help you out.

I would be more than happy to help you with any of this. Just contact me via ICQ or e-mail...both of which are in my profile.

Cheers.

TradeViceroy